Finch Newton Water, Inc., IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.15 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Finch Newton Water, Inc.
Finch Newton Water, Inc. serves about 2,672 people through 760 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Spencer County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5274003; phone on file: 812-660-2256. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.24 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Finch Newton Water, Inc. is 3.15 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.15 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.24 ppb |
How Finch Newton Water, Inc. compares
Of the 687 Indiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.31 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Finch Newton Water, Inc.'s 3.15 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Indiana and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Spencer County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Finch Newton Water, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reo Water Corporation | 3,875 | 6 ppb |
| Santa Claus Water Utility | 3,683 | 3 ppb |
| Rockport Water | 2,520 | 1.31 ppb |
| Dale Water Works | 1,637 | 1.59 ppb |
| Gentryville Water Utility | 1,625 | 1.53 ppb |
| Chrisney Water Department | 823 | 0.79 ppb |
| Grandview Municipal Water Utility | 765 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Meinrad Utilities, Inc. | 658 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Chrisney, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chrisney, IN may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Finch Newton Water, Inc. whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.